Your Yoga Nidra Practice

  • Yoga Nidra means yogic sleep. It is a guided practice done lying completely still while your awareness moves inward through progressively deeper layers of consciousness. You are not trying to fall asleep, though it sometimes happens. You are learning to rest in the space between waking and sleeping, where the nervous system can release what ordinary rest does not reach.

    The style I practice and teach is rooted in the Amrit Method, developed by Yogi Amrit Desai. It does not treat the body as something to get past. It moves through each layer of your being with full respect for what is already there. You are not fixing anything. You are meeting yourself exactly where you are.

    Thirty minutes of Yoga Nidra is said to provide the equivalent rest of two to four hours of sleep. That is a finding from research on delta brainwave activity during the practice.

  • The practice moves through a body scan, breath awareness, pairs of opposites, and a journey through the five koshas — from your outermost physical body to your innermost bliss body. At the beginning you will be invited to set a Sankalpa, a personal intention. Keep it simple. One sentence. Something true.

    You may feel like you drifted off. You may feel like nothing happened. Both are normal. The practice is working either way.

  • Lie on your back. A blanket and an eye pillow help. Turn your phone to do not disturb. Tell anyone nearby you need 30 uninterrupted minutes. This is not indulgent. This is the practice.

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Koshas_Guide_DYS (2).pdf by Lotus Yoga
Two people practicing yoga on mats, with one person in a child’s pose on a black mat and the other in a supine position on an orange mat.

You just traveled through five layers of your energetic body.

You also passed through all seven chakras. Your awareness moved from your physical body all the way to the bliss body at the center.

Seven polished gemstones in a vertical line on a light-colored wooden surface, starting with clear, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red stones.

Most people feel something shift in that section and have no idea why.

The chakras are energy centers that correspond to regions of your body and patterns in your life.

When one is blocked, you feel it. When the system is flowing, you feel that too.

We put together a guide that explains all seven in depth.

What each one governs, what imbalance looks like in daily life. It also includes a full yin yoga sequence to align the whole chakra system on your mat.

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These practices are a small taste of what we're Creating.

These practices are a small taste of what we're building.

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If this practice moved something in you, there is more where that came from.
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